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UNITED STATES PATENT oFFroE.

JOHN'ASBURY SMITH, OF HARRISBURG, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOR T0 ELLIOTT- FISHER COMPANY, OF NEW YORK, .N. Y., A CORPORATION OF DELAWARE.

REGISTER FOR ADDING-MACHINES.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Feb. 10, 1914.

Application filed November 27, 1907. Serial No. 404,020.

for instance, as the Elliott-Fisher billing machine of commerce, exemplified in Patents Nos. 820,879 and 829,971 to Laganke and Smith,

It may be stated by way of premise that there are two general classes of addition. One of these classes involves uniform denominational values, as for instance the decimal system, wherein the limit of value of each denomination is ten, the unit of value of each denomination being thus ten times the unit of value of the denomination of next lower order. The other class of addition involves non-uniform denominational values, for instance, the English currency system, wherein the denominations are designated farthings, pence, shillings and pounds,

and have limits of value of four, twelve, twenty and ten, respectively. Other instances of the non-uniform class are the liquid measure, to-wit, pints, quarts and gallons, the denominational values being two, fourand ten, respectively, and the linear measure, to-wit, feet and inches, having denominational values of twelve and ten, respectively; also the linear measure extendedto fractions, as for instance, quarter inches, inches and feet, the progressive values of these denominations being four, twelve and ten, respectively. In the patents already. identified is disclosed a totalizing or registeri-n mechanism arranged for meohanical ad ition in accordance with the uniform decimal system, the limitof value being transferred to the next higher denomination whenever tenunits of value are accumulated in any given denomination.

The object of my present invention is to produce a totalizer or register which, with slight modification, mav be adapted for any one of several kinds of addition of what I have designated as the non-uniform class, to-wit addition in which the denominations have different limits ofvalue and therefore require the accumulation of different unit values in different denominations prior to the carrying operation.

A further object of the invention is to produce a totalizer or register which, while capable of mechanically performing nonuniform addition, will, nevertheless, be operable by a master actuator relatively movable in a rectilinear path to different denominational posit-ions and having a fixed or constant unit of rotary movement.

Subordinate to this general object, the invention is directed to a novel construction.

and arrangement of parts designed to provide against every contingency which could, by any possibility, result in erroneous computations.

In the accompanying drawingsFigure 1 is a front elevation of the register. Fig. 2 is a similar view with a. portion of the casing removed. Fig. 3 is a plan View of the same with the top of the casing removed. Fig. 4 is a fragmentary plan view, partly in section, designed more particularly to show the mechanism whereby the pence wheel controls the operation of the mechanism for advancing or carrying the adjacent shillings wheel. Fig. 5 is a vertical sectional view of the register showing the relation of the various wheels. Fig. 6 is a horizontal section through a portion of the register, showing the relation-of the various registering Wheels. Fig. 7 is a section on the line 77 of Fig. 5. Fig. 8 is a sectional view on the line 8-8 of Fig. 5, seen from a point of view opposite that of Fig. 7. Fig. 9 is a view similar to Fig. 7, the section being taken on a line at the opposite side of the partition between the pence and shillings wheels. Fig. 10 is a section'similar to Fig, 8, but taken at the opposite side of the partition on the line 10-l0'of Fig. 5. Fig. 11 is a section similar to Fig. 10, showing a selector and a carrying device in the positions they assume after they have been operated to advance a registering wheel. Fig. 12 is a section similar to Fig. 11' with the resetting lever elevated sufli'ciently to reset the operated transfer device and selector. Fig. 13. is another section similar to Fig. 12, showing the positions assumed by the parts after the lever has been farther elevated to permit the rocker to move back sufliciently to accommodate the backward dividing plate or partition.

thrown up to completely reset the wheelsand showing the selectors thrown back by the projections on the wheels during the resetting of the latter. Fig. 15 is a detail view of the resetting train of gearing for the farthings and pence wheels. Fig. 16 is a detail perspective View of the register Figs. 17, 18 and 19 are detail perspective views of the several forms ofselectors employed. Fig. 20 is a detail perspective view of one of the pound wheels. Fig. 21 is a similar view of the shilling wheel. Eig. 22 1S a detail perspective view of the pence wheel. Fig. 23 is a detail view of the farthings wheel. Fig. is a detail view of the idler which the shilling wheel. of highest denomination. Fig. 25 is a detail view of one of the idlers for the pound wheels. Fig. 26 is a detail view of one of the idlers at the right of thepartition, to-wit, one of the idlers for the far-things or pence wheels. Fig. 27 is a detail perspective View of the lever for operating the rockeractuating slide. Fig; 28 is a detail view of the con,- trolling catch or etc for the lever shown in Fig. 27. Fig. 29 1s a froht'elevation of a modified construction designed for the addition of feet and inches. Fig. 30 is a vertical sectional View of the same. Fig. 31 is a horizontal section through the front end of the register. Fig. 32 is ahorizontal section in a somewhat higher plane than Fi 31 of the right hand side of the register. Fig. 33 is a front elevation of another modiiied construction adapted for addition according to the liquid measure, to-wit, gallons, quarts and pints. Fig. 34 is a vertical sectional view thereof. Figs. 85 and 36 are horizontal sections of the same construe.- tion. Fig. 37 is a front elevation of the upper portion of still another modified form of register arranged for addition in accordance with the linear measure extended to fractions, to. wit, feet, inches and quarter inches, and Fig. 38 is a front elevation of the same register with a portion of the 021s ing removed. v

Each pait is designated by the same reference character throughout the drawings.

Referring first more particularly to Figs. 1 to 28 inclusive which illustrate a' register for English currency values, 1 indicates the casins of the register supported upon a bar 2' which, in the contemplated use of the de vice, ismounted on the frame of what is known as a flat platen or book typewriter, shown in the patents hereinbefore identified. Within the ca adjacent to the front side nary, and supports 1m M l T e, c, d, 6, ,9, II?

a transverse shaft 3,

and y', in the form of wheels each having ten equidistant peripheral teeth. The alinement of the idlers a, 6, etc., permits a toothed master wheel or actuator is, a segment of which is shown in F ig. 8, to be advanced laterally into mesh with each successive idler and to be rotated for the purpose of rotating the idler engaged by said wheel.

It is unnecessary for the purpose of the present invention to show and describe the mechanism whereby the wheel 4 is shifted.

across the series of idlers and rotated to operate the idlers engaged. It may be stated in passing, however, that in the contemplated use of the register, with which the present invention is directly concerned, the master wheel is moved laterally with a typewriter carriage and ,is rotated by the numeral keys of the typewriter through suitable intermediate connections, to the end that when a key is-deprcssed to print a given digit in a given denominational order of a column on the Work sheet, the idler of corresponding denomination will be rotated a number of increments or units of movement corresponding to the value of the digit printed.

The immediately foregoing statement will be more fully understood by reference to the patents hereinbefore identified.

The several idlers engage and operate the registering wheels a, b, a, d, e, f, g, h, i and 7". The registering wheels are enmeshed with the idlers at all times, and displayed thereon and preferably upon the outer faces of the teeth thereof are suitable digits or numerical designations. The six wheels of highest denomination, to-wit, the wheels at to f inclusive, may be termed the pound wheels, since they register amounts expressed in pounds, to-wit, units, tens, hundreds, thousands, ten-thousands and bun dred-t-housands of pounds, beginning with the wheel f at the right hand end of this group. The next two wheels to the right register amounts in shillings, the wheel it registering units and the wheel 9 tens of shillings. The shillings and pounds wheels are separated by an interval to facilitate the reading of the totahand it will be noted that the idler g meshing with the tens of shillings wheel 9 is consequently of double width.

Each of the pound wheels or. to f inclusive, and the units of shillings wheel it, displays upon its periphery the digits 0 to 9 inclusive, while the tens of shillings wheel 9' displays five'seriesof digits each including 0 to 1, and each of said wheels, to-wit, a to it inclusive, has ten teeth corresponding to the spaces of the idlers, so that one complete rotation of any idler, except the two at the extreme right hand end of the series, will effect one complete rotation of the shilling or pound wheel to which motion is 

